Tatum O'Neal Quotes
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
